Daniel Stashower

About the Author

Daniel Stashower is the author of four mystery novels and a winner of the Raymond Chandler Fulbright Fellowship in Detective and Crime Fiction Writing. He lives in Bethesda, MD. (Bowker Author Biography)

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Series

Harry Houdini Mysteries

Works by Daniel Stashower

The Hour of Peril: The Secret Plot to Murder Lincoln Before the Civil War (2013) 405 copies

Arthur Conan Doyle: Life in Letters (2007) — Editor — 304 copies

Murder in Baker Street: New Tales of Sherlock Holmes (2001) — Editor & Introduction — 287 copies

Teller of Tales: The Life of Arthur Conan Doyle (1999) 225 copies

American Demon: Eliot Ness and the Hunt for America's Jack the Ripper (2022) 211 copies

Sherlock Holmes in America (2009) — Editor; Contributor — 199 copies

The Adventure of the Ectoplasmic Man (1985) 184 copies

Murder, My Dear Watson: New Tales of Sherlock Holmes (2002) — Contributor; Editor — 114 copies

The Dime Museum Murders (Harry Houdini Mysteries) (1999) 102 copies

The Houdini Specter (2001) 91 copies

The Floating Lady Murder (2000) 82 copies

The Boy Genius and the Mogul: The Untold Story of Television (2002) 46 copies

The Ghosts in Baker Street : New Tales of Sherlock Holmes (2005) — Editor — 45 copies

Elephants in the Distance (Felony & Mayhem Mystyeries) (1989) 29 copies

Edgar Allan Poe and the murder of Mary Rogers (2006) 11 copies

Fabeltiere (1985) 9 copies

Houdini y el asesino de la feria/ The Dime Museum Murders (Ventana Abierta: Los Misterios De Houdini/ Open Window: a… (2009) 5 copies

Magic Box (1995) 5 copies

Edgard Allan Poe y el misterio de la bella cigarrera (2010) 4 copies

Reuzen en wildemannen (1986) 4 copies

The Adventure of the Agitated Actress 2 copies

The International Exhibition of Sherlock Holmes 1 copy

The Redstone Box of Tricks (1995) 1 copy

Stashower Daniel 1 copy

L'avventura dell'attrice inquieta (in Gli occhi della paura) 1 copy

Selden's Tale 1 copy

Book Review: 'Tales My Father Never Told' 1 copy

Book Reviews: A Schoolteacher in Old Alaska, The Story of Hannah Breece 1 copy

Book Reviews: Oddity Odyssey: A Journey Through New England's Colorful Past 1 copy

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Associated Works

Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe (1824) — Introduction, some editions — 12,017 copies

Death's Excellent Vacation (2010) — Contributor — 827 copies

The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1976) — Contributor — 358 copies

The Best American Mystery Stories 2003 (2003) — Contributor — 204 copies

More Holmes for the Holidays (1999) — Contributor — 154 copies

The Big Book of Sherlock Holmes Stories (2015) — Contributor — 142 copies

Dangerous Work: Diary of an Arctic Adventure (2012) — Editor — 136 copies

Malice Domestic 7: An Anthology of Original Traditional Mystery Stories (1998) — Contributor — 44 copies

Murder Is My Racquet: Fourteen Original Tales of Love, Death, and Tennis by Today's Great Writers (2005) — Contributor — 27 copies

Cleveland Noir (2023) — Contributor — 24 copies

The Surgeon of Gaster Fell (1890) — Afterword, some editions — 9 copies

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Common Knowledge

Legal name: Stashower, Daniel Meyer
Birthdate: 1960-09-21
Gender: male
Nationality: USA
Birthplace: Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Places of residence: Maryland, USA
Occupations: freelance journalist

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Discussions

History; Nonfiction; True Crime; Erik Larson; Daniel Stashower in If You Like Then You Will Love (July 2013)

Conan Doyle letters in Baker Street and Beyond (September 2007)

Reviews

American demon : Eliot Ness and the hunt for… by Daniel Stashower

Ostensibly the story of Ness pursuing Cleveland’s torso killer, but more the story of his time as public safety officer which just happens to coincide with a number of possibly interconnected beheadings. Of course, that’s just an opinion. It is well written, will hold your interest and leave you to decide for yourself

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cspiwak | 11 other reviews | Mar 6, 2024 |

The beautiful cigar girl : Mary Rogers, Edgar Allan… by Daniel Stashower

An interesting look at Poe's life through the medium of one particular piece

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cspiwak | 25 other reviews | Mar 6, 2024 |

American Demon: Eliot Ness and the Hunt for… by Daniel Stashower

American Demon is a well written true crime drama about a good cop and his most frustrating case.

American Demon more about Eliot Ness than the Torso Killer. It's about his devotion to Public Safety rather than his image. It's also about Ness as a person with major flaws. He wasn't the person we see portrayed in popular media. He wasn't a super-cop. He wasn't always a good person and he was sometimes a hypocrite. He went up against an entrenched system and found out twice that sometimes the best way to accomplish a task is to compromise and make peace with "that's good enough".

I don't know how to say more without spoiling the book, which is kind of a bizarre thing to say about true crime.… (more)

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rabbit-stew | 11 other reviews | Dec 31, 2023 |

American Demon: Eliot Ness and the Hunt for… by Daniel Stashower

300 pages, of which 35% speaks of Ness's days going after Capone in Chicago, and not addressing the main topic of the book. If I wanted to read about that story, I would have bought a different book.

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BenM2023 | 11 other reviews | Nov 22, 2023 |

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